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Financing For Plastic Surgery

A major contributing factor to the rise in the number of cosmetic procedures, particularly those involving surgery, is financing. While once a non-existant or negligible part of most plastic surgeon’s practices a mere decade ago, it is now a significant and important component of patient conversion today. Like many other luxury services, the ability to Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Benefits of Breast Reduction

Breast reduction surgery helps reduce the symptoms of neck, back and shoulder pain that large hanging breasts create. Much like a rope around a women’s neck onto which are attached several lb. sacks, the continuous pull of the weight of the breasts causes musculoskeletal pain from the neck into the back. But the amount of Read More…

Rupture Rates of PIP Breast Implants

Just like the U.S. had its own breast implant problems back in 1991, Europe is now dealing with one of its own in the recent PIP breast implant problem. Unlike the U.S problem which centered around the now unproven issue of systemic and autoimmune diseases from ruptured breast implants, the French-manufactured PIP implant problem is Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Rise in Cosmetic Procedures

Everyone is aware that cosmetic surgery is a burgeoning business based on the sheer number of advertisements and coverage by the media. Recent statistics released by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons shows that the number of cosmetic procedures performed in the U.S. has doubled over the past ten years. But this dramatic increase has Read More…

The Complexities of Combining Breast Implants and Lifts in the Sagging Breast

The sagging breast poses one of the most difficult problems in cosmetic plastic surgery. While many patients assume that the simple placement of a breast implant will create the effect of a breast lift while making it bigger, this perception is usually wrong. This may work for the smallest amount of breast sagging. But for Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Most Popular Country for Plastic Surgery

Cosmetic surgery abounds in the U.S. as seen everywhere from print and electronic media. One would think that this is an almost exclusive American phenomenon that is less popular anywhere else in the world but that impression would be wrong. While the U.S. has the greatest number of procedures performed of any country in the Read More…

The Safety of Outpatient Tummy Tuck Surgery

Reshaping of one’s stomach and waistline through a tummy tuck or abdominoplasty is a plastic surgery procedure that has a long history of success. The procedure has evolved over the years from the relatively simple excision of loose skin and fat to a more comprehensive procedure that may include liposuction, fascial muscle reshaping and flap Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Today’s Tummy Tucks

A tummy tuck is a well known body contouring procedure in plastic surgery but it is far from just a simple tuck. In most cases a wide excision of loose skin and fat is done often encompassing up to one-third of the surface area of the abdominal wall. This is often combined with liposuction along Read More…

The Rise In Chin Augmentation Surgery

The chin has a prominent role in defining facial shape and its aesthetic look. Whereas a strong prominent chin has been associated with strength and increased masculinity, a short chin portrays the opposite appearance of weakness. As a result, cosmetic chin augmentation with an implant has been done in plastic surgery for more than four Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Meaning of Plastic in Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery has very little to do withâ€¦plastic. Plastic as a well known material has been around since its discovery and synthesis from petrochemicals in 1951. But plastic surgery as a medical procedure has been around for hundreds of years before. In looking at the many hundreds of plastic surgery procedures, very few of them Read More…